City Lights Ministry

Analysis

City Lights Ministry is a registered charity in United States, based in Winston Salem, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2014, 12 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, City Lights Ministry reported income of $476k and spending of $458k, spending 96% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $261k to $476k (+83%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 206%. Over the whole period it spent 87% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, City Lights Ministry sits at the 64th percentile: it is larger than about 64% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 69th percentile, and in the 69th percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Mahvash Ghiam Raoof Inc ($476k), Dir Biyaber Edir Mutual Assistance Association of Los Angeles ($476k) and United Way of Lee County Inc ($476k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $200k. At year end it held assets of $971k against liabilities of $656k, net assets of $315k. It reported 16 employees.